I was trying not to get excited about NS2... but I failed. I can't wait! The problem that I have is I'm not sure my ancient machine is powerful enough - it was a champ in it's day - but that was probably 4+ years ago. Provided she doesn't fail on me, here are her specs:

Money is an issue (so is time, but who really needs sleep anyway). Do you think my machine can hack it? Any better video card suggestions? Any knowledge of a deal on a better machine (and monitor, my fracking monitor has more vertical dead stripes than a zebra!)

I see on the NS site the min. specs are below my machines - it's just the age I worry about! (min specs being 1.2Ghz proc, 256MB RAM...)

Signed,GrayDuck - Ready to come out of Retirement and chomp some marines!

I have nothing to add, since I know nothing about hardware, just posted to say HIYA GRAYDUCK!

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. Terry Pratchett

Yeah, the HD4670 is a pretty solid card. It's only slightly slower than 1.5 years ago's HD3870, and a hell of a lot cheaper than the high end cards were then. It's a good choice for an older system. Anything faster than this card, you'll probably see bottlenecks in the CPU, RAM, or bus. Moreso on the CPU/bus side though.

Just make sure your motherboard can handle a PCIe graphics card. I know many of them Dells either omit the PCIe X16 slot entirely, or it has an x4/x8 slot instead.

If you want to buy a new rig, I'm assuming you can put it together. Judging from your past posts, and this one, it looks like you're pretty comfortable taking off the side of the case. If you're *really* thinking about it, let me know your price range, and I can make a recommendation that falls within the budget constraints. If you're planning to reuse some of your old parts, let me know what you've got as well